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To: wendy1946
http://newswise.com/articles/view/542898/

The researchers found that what previously had been identified as remnants of blood cells, because of the presence of iron, were actually structures called framboids, microscopic mineral spheres bearing iron. They found similar spheres in a variety of other fossils from various time periods, including an extinct sea creature called an ammonite. In the ammonite they found the spheres in a place where the iron they contain could not have had any relationship to the presence of blood.

"We determined that these structures were too common to be exceptionally preserved tissue. We realized it couldn't be a one-time exceptional preservation," Kaye said.

The scientists also dissolved bone in acid, as had been done previously, and found the same soft tissue structures. They conducted a comparison using infrared mass spectroscopy and determined the structures were more closely related to modern biofilm than modern collagen, extracellular proteins associated with bone. Carbon dating placed the origin at around 1960.

76 posted on 05/16/2010 6:46:27 PM PDT by MetaThought
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To: MetaThought

An exhaustive study of this thing was done in 09 and the claim of soft tissue and blood vessels and blood held up. Neither you nor anybody at talk.origins or wikipedia is going to make that go away by waving your hands like that.


77 posted on 05/16/2010 7:15:40 PM PDT by wendy1946
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To: MetaThought
wiki-answers...

"As commented on by Schweitzer the soft tissue contained blood vessels out of which a liquid substance was able to be squeezed. When tested this was able to be identified as blood - possessing both the shape of red corpuscles under the miscoscope and the appropriate reaction to a magnetic field due to the iron in the haemoglobin. "

I mean, the evolosers can't even really get to everything connected to wikipedia itself despite their efforts. The article says a lot about creationists none of it positive, but at least they don't dispute the facts of the case as the altogether ignorant article quoted above does.

78 posted on 05/16/2010 7:22:30 PM PDT by wendy1946
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